Word: ransoming
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First, by way of mental disarmament, he put his professional reputation up for ransom. "I have never misled you on the Western Front campaign," he said. "I pledge my good name for the genuineness of this information...
Best Man. In Brooklyn, N. Y., Salvatore Criscione, best man at the wedding of Charles Giangarra, was arrested for kidnapping him and holding him for $10,000 ransom...
...sepia-toned film and handsome exteriors with which Metro has dressed this old Porter Emerson Browne western do not even partly submerge the musty dramatics of the script. Spitting such lines as "Find horses for ze women, and zese two men we take for ransom. Kill ze ozzers," Actor Beery plays his part as if he were kidding the quickie horse opera. His ability and experience partly inoculate Actor Barrymore against his ridiculous role, enable him to scatter a few flickers of reality. The others (Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers) seem to walk through their parts in a mechanical...
...King's Portuguese business agent, Augusto Lopez Joly. In Lisbon waited the foppish, oily, hand-kissing familiar of Madame Lupescu, M. Ernest Urdarianu who served Carol in Bucharest as Grand Chamberlain. Out of rebuilding Bucharest the King, Lupescu and Urdarianu reputedly cleaned up a king's ransom, and in Bucha rest there is some demand that at least Lupescu and Urdarianu be hanged...
...affair was being financed by a "public utility having financial connections with Spain." Best guess was that that meant Sofina, international utility trust which owns properties both in Spain and in Argentina. Perhaps penniless Franco was holding Sofina's Spanish properties for ransom money to be delivered in Buenos Aires...